4 January 2022
Sexual violence was used widely as a weapon of war in Guatemala’s 36-year armed conflict. The Army and the civil self-defence patrols, known as PACs, were the main perpetrators of these events. Twenty-five years since the peace accords were signed, our new report documents the long road to justice of the Maya indigenous women and girls who experienced sexual violence and lost family members in the war.
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